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Material You countdown widget

By the WidgetCraft team · Updated November 13, 2026

A Material You countdown widget counts the days left until a date you choose. Android 12-style tonal colors, large rounded shapes and friendly type. This page gives the exact colors, type settings and layers, with a preview drawn from the same values.

Material You countdown widget design preview: Android 12-style tonal colors, large rounded shapes and friendly type. — Design preview drawn from the recipe below. Example values are shown; your widget uses live data.

What a Material You countdown widget shows

A countdown widget keeps one date in view: a trip, a birthday, an exam or a launch. The number of days is the hero, the event name gives it meaning and a bar shows how far along you are.

WidgetCraft's countdown layer works from the phone's clock, so it is free, needs no permission and works offline. You pick the target date in the layer's details.

How the Material You style shapes it

Material You is the design language Google introduced with Android 12. Widgets use soft tonal colors drawn from the wallpaper, very round corners and big readable numbers. This recipe recreates the look with fixed colors you choose.

Numbers: Make numbers large and rounded in the on-surface color.
Bars and rings: Use thick pill bars and full circles in the primary color on a lighter container.

Material You countdown widget recipe

Layer	Settings
Canvas	360 × 180, background #E8DEF8, corner radius 28
Layout	split: label and event name on the left, the number right aligned and larger on the right
Text	label "Days until", size 12, color #625B71
Countdown	days remaining, Google Sans or Roboto, size 76, color #1D192B
Text	event name, size 20, color #1D192B
Progress	a thick 12-point bar with rounded ends, 312 wide, progress #6750A4
Ornament	a large circle in the darker container tone, tucked into the bottom right corner
Font	Google Sans or Roboto (import the font file), or the built-in Sans
Home screen size	4 × 2 cells

Material You color palette

Tonal lavender #E8DEF8Background
Primary container #D0BCFFSurface and tracks
On-surface #1D192BText
Outline grey #625B71Labels
Primary purple #6750A4Accent

How to make a Material You countdown widget in WidgetCraft

Create a widget and open Canvas. Set the size to 360 × 180, the background to #E8DEF8 and the corner radius to 28.
Tap Add and choose Countdown. Pick your target date and show days only.
Set the font to Google Sans or Roboto, the size to 76 and the color to #1D192B.
Add a Text label "Days until" at size 12 in #625B71, and a second Text layer for the event name at size 20.
Add a Progress layer as a thick 12-point bar with rounded ends in #6750A4 to show how much of the wait has passed.
Add the Material You ornament with Shape layers and move them below the other layers in Layers: a large circle in the darker container tone, tucked into the bottom right corner.
Tap Save, then Add to home screen and resize the widget on your launcher if needed.

Everything in this recipe works in the free version.

Tips for Material You countdown widgets

Take background, container and text from one hue at different lightness.
Use 28 points of corner radius.
Decide whether today counts; label the number "days left" or "sleeps" so it is not ambiguous.
Short event names fit best. Two or three words is ideal.
After the date passes, change the target or the widget will sit at zero.
Do not mix unrelated hues.
Do not use hairline borders.

Questions about the Material You countdown widget

What size is a Material You countdown widget?

It is designed for 4 × 2 home screen cells on a 360 × 180 canvas. You can resize it on the launcher and the design scales in proportion.

Which colors does it use?

Tonal lavender (#E8DEF8) for the background, On-surface (#1D192B) for the main text, Outline grey (#625B71) for labels and Primary purple (#6750A4) as the accent.

Is it free to make?

Yes. Countdown widgets use free features in WidgetCraft, and the Material You styling is free too.

What else is this style called?

People also search for material 3 countdown widget, android 12 style countdown widget, pixel style countdown widget, google style countdown widget. They describe the same look as this Material You countdown widget.

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